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A/N: Hey all! yea yea... I suck I'm always promising to update and then I never do... but I have today so you should be thankful:-) Anyway, Chapter 12 isn't so great... theres no Lit action. However Chp 13 may have too much Lit action if that's possible and it's going to be super long and I am totally excited about Chp 13 because I have been thinking about it all along and it's going to be the "it" chapter however it probably won't be the last Chapter. Anyway, if you don't like this one look forward to the next one! And I have to go, but let me just say I know march of the penguins wasn't out during the time this fic took place, but I didn't realize it until after I wrote it and I could go back and change it, but like I said I have to go so either pretend or if you're one of those crazy obsessive cumpulsive types, think of another snowy movie that would have fit in and replace it in your mind. :-) and if you have no idea what I am talking about while you're reading you can all go "ooohhh" and it'll click in your minds and it will be a joyous moment for all! And on that note I reaallyy do have to go. So enjoy... read and review... I love you all for continuing to read... goodnight and goodluck

Chp 12 – Briffle Spink (the title will also give you a clicky moment later on... continue)

The next morning, Rory was sitting on the couch in Luke's apartment reading a book, which she had borrowed from Jess, while Lorelai was on the other side of the room looking out the window. Luke was downstairs making breakfast for everyone with Lane, Jess was watching TV and Dean and Kirk were playing scrabble…

"Kirk, I'm telling you… spink is not a word!" Dean said, this argument had been going on for quite sometime and he hadn't been getting anywhere.

"It is a word! It's a type of bird. Mother used to read me a book called The Pink Spink named Mink when I was Kid Kirk."

"There is no such book, Kirk."

"Yes there is. His name was Mink and he liked to wink and drink out of pink sinks."

Lorelai had been listening to their conversation, "Dean!" she said with a gasp. "You mean to tell me, you've never heard of the pink spink named mink? It was all the rage until Nsync started to stink and then people started to skate at the ice rink, I think."

Rory hadn't been paying attention, but she caught the last few sentences. She turned to her mother. "What!"

"Hee. This is fun." Lorelai said.

"Do not egg him on." Dean gave Lorelai an evil glare.

"I'm a poet and I didn't even know it." Lorelai said with a smile.

"Yes…" Rory added. "You wrote The Cat in the Hat didn't you?"

"Actually…" Jess spoke up. "Kirk is right, spink is a word."

"Hah!" Kirk said pointing a finger abnormally close to Dean's face. Dean pushed it away and turned to Jess.

"Do not make this worse, Jess. No one asked you."

Jess was about to say something but he caught a glimpse of Rory giving him a look and refrained. He simply said "Fine," and walked to the other end of the room.

Lorelai walked over to Rory and sat next to her. "What are you reading?" she asked.

"Uh…" she was deep into the story when she was interrupted. She picked up her head and said "Oh, um, Heart of Darkness." Then, quickly turned back to the book.

"Cool… I mean, it looks cool… although it sounds like a depressing book, I mean Heart of Darkness? Are they serious? That title alone just makes you want to cry, they might as well just name it Grab a Box of Tissues, although I don't know what the book is actually about so maybe it isn't depressing…" she was about to continue until Rory turned to her.

"Would you like a mirror so you can watch yourself talk? Or maybe a tape recorder because it's obvious you like hearing your voice."

"You're very grouchy today."

"I'm sorry, I'm just reading and you know you shouldn't talk to me when I am reading, and it's still snowing and we've been locked in this place for what feels like eternity…"

"Believe me, I know."

Rory turned back to the book and Lorelai spoke again. "So how is it?"

"What?" Rory was getting annoyed again.

"The book, how is it?"

"Well, this sentence I've been reading is great."

"Okay, sorry."

Rory looked up from the book and at her mother and said, " 'The day was ending in a serenity of still and exquisite brilliance.' 'The day was ending in a serenity of still and exquisite brilliance.' 'brilliance exquisite and still of serenity a in ending was day the.' "

"Okay, okay, I get it… Hey I know, maybe you should take up acting"

Rory gave her a strange look.

"Yea, because you have made it very clear that you can memorize sentences, and say them backwards all with in a matter of seconds." She raised her eyebrows as if Rory has purposely memorized the sentence just to get her mother away.

"And…to top it all off." Rory said, "I can do all that even with the added annoyance of my mother yapping in my ear."

Lorelai looked down as if she was pouting "hmph…" she said.

"There, there." Rory said and patted her atop the head. "Now go be a good little girl and leave Rory alone."

"Fine..." Lorelai said and got up to go downstairs.

Rory continued to read, Jess continued to stand there and Dean and Kirk continued to argue…

"Okay, maybe spink is a word, but there is no way that briffle is a word!" Dean screamed.

"Is to!" Kirk screamed back.

"No way, Kirk… that's it… I am done playing." Dean said and got up.

Rory looked up and smirked at what was going on, she looked over at Jess who had been staring at her the whole time. She smiled at him with a slight chuckle and then turned back to the book.

Downstairs Lorelai had reached the diner and she called out for Luke. She checked in the storage room and couldn't find him then went into the kitchen.

"Hey Lane. Where's Luke?

"I'm not sure. I thought he went upstairs."

"huh…" Lorelai said, she was starting to get concerned. She walked back into the diner just to see Luke coming out of the bathroom.

"Hey" he said.

"Hey you." Lorelai said smiling. "I was wondering where you had run off to. I thought maybe you had taken March of the Penguins too seriously."

"Nope." He said. "I have no urgency to waddle around in the snow anytime soon."

"Good to hear it… so… hi" She said giving him a kiss on the lips, which lasted a little longer than expected.

"Hi back." Luke said with a smile.

"So… I've been thinking and I think we need to have a serious discussion about this, dare I say relationship, we have going on."

"Um… okay." Luke said. "Though, I thought we already did."

"Well we did, but I just… I can't help but think that all of this is just happening because we're here in the snow storm and not because we actually might have something in the future."

"What?" Luke said.

"Wait..."

"Lorelai, the snow isn't what brought us together. It just took a snowstorm for us to realize what was there all along."

"I don't see it like that."

"Well how do you see it!" Luke started to get angry because he wasn't sure what she was insinuating. "Snow isn't magical Lorelai! I thought that what happened between us happened because it was what we both wanted."

"Well… it… it was, but…"

"Really? Because that isn't how I see it anymore."

"How do you see it!"

"I don't know! I see it...I see it as… you were feeling sorry for me because of what happened with Nicole and you thought 'Hell it's snowing, snow is magical, and when this snowstorm ends I will just blame everything on that.' If I remember correctly those were your original thoughts… I was just dumb enough to believe you after you told me that you lied when you said the snow made you crazy and that you really wanted this to work out."

"I do want this to work out! Don't put words in my mouth."

" I don't have to! You just told me how you felt."

"Luke… wait! That isn't what I meant!"

"No it's fine! I get it." Luke said starting to leave.

"Luke!" Lorelai cried out and watched Luke disappear up the stairs.

She just stood there with her arms crossed over her chest. She wasn't angry at Luke, she was angry at herself. This was the second time she let herself believe that everything she was feeling about Luke was too good too be true. She knew that everything she had said wasn't how she really felt, but somehow she couldn't stop herself from saying it. "What have I done?" she thought and ran up the stairs.

"Luke!" she called out to him.

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